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LoWNDEsvILLE's LIFE AND SLEEP.
The Wet Spell-..The Bridge---fisitors
-..PrcachinE ..- Negroes 4 Hus-
bands predIcament.
JowyprsytL1E. August |, 1897.

TOwNDFSYILl.E. August l, lSSI.
! We are now having some hot weather. -,
! Some Of The planters have begun tn pull
! iOlder.
Cotton Is opening rapidly. Where is the
Tie "long season In May which came this
! year the latter part OF July and tn" first OF
August has ended. ana now we are nilFlnS
some hot sunshine.
Tho bridge across Rocky River near here,
as good us any If not the best IN Inc county,
! was pretty badly damaged by the late freShet.
County Commissioner W. ID. Mann tas given
the contract for lengthening aud raisin. the
rock abutment to the above bridge to eX-
Judge j. J. Moselcy: 80,
Capt James NJ. White. or AbbcvLlie, mas
lust spent few days here upon his old tramp.
Ing ground, where his boyhood and manhood
were spent. We were glad TO see him.
Mrs. Mary Norwood, of BordeauX, has been
visiting for the past few days at Judge "m.
Rev. w. 8. Martin has swapped Memo"
his trotter, to Mr.. Stevenson, OF HnrtWell, Ga.
Mrs. James r. Barnes, OF Anderson, was
here several days Inst week. She returned
home last Saturday accompanied oy Master
Ellis Huckabee.
Mrs. Il. D. Kay, after m absence Of several
months visiting In different loeainties since In
MIR. Jas. II. Cunningham OF Abbeyille Wns
gladly greeted by relatives and friends IN
and around here during last week. He Is al
ways welcome visitant to this section.
opened a school near our depot, with pay
leg number Of scholars.
Mr.. j. h. Franks, principal OF the Lowndes-
vile Academy, will begin the exercises Of his
school the 20th OF this month. We bespeak
for these schools the liberal patronage this
community is 80 we'll able to extend.
Miss title Allen, after spending seVera!
days with her brother. Mr.. r. B. Allen and
family In Anderson county, came back yes
terday.
Rev. s. ]. Bethen is now conducting meet
ing Of several days dnratlon at Belfs aca chapel p
living soul who can locate it-"the Nation"
Rev. R. c. Ligon will begin a three days
meeting, communion on Sunday, at Provi-
dence (hcre) next Friday at II oclock.
The colored people cxp xpected quite jubilee
at Flat Rock on yesterday, Judging from the
demand there was for horses and buggies, IN
and about this place. Every available iha morse morse
| more than weeks wages for the gratiflca-
tion Of appearing big on Sunday. Snch Is
We have heard of the "raling passion strong
heard OF case Of the "ruling passion strong
In" sleep, till a short time back, when a par
ticuar friend OF ours showed 1t most LOO
strongly for n. own personal Somor ana b,s
"better half" The friend, who Is somnam-
bulist rs we'll as somniloqulst, one night af-
ter retiring dreamed that he was enjoying n
jumped up in bed, and pointing skywards.
exclaimed. "There he Is! don't you see him
there?" Then his "treed" midnight prowlcr
jumped off. and made tracks. My friend
"struck out" after him: out of bed, then Into
| the yard, halloaing at the tnp Of his voice;
"Here he goes here he goes! sic. sic, sic"
His wife at once taking in the situation. was
| in somewhat of q dilemma. She did not
know where he might CO. nor what he might
do before awaking, and did not wish TO follow
him through the mud and slush Ut had been
| raining about three days:) She fortunately
thought of ''settlng" their little dog after
him, which she did ut once. The faithful lit
/ tie animal soon overlook his master, and by
barking and other "more wakin' acts" stop
ped him In his exciting career, and he re-
| turned to the house. Some Of us may possi-
bly, imagine, but will not undertake TO pic.
ture, how crestfallen nor what a pitiable
sight our friend was, drenched with rain and
fitness OF things" have made this para
graph somewhat large, 10 correspond with
| the main actor in this midnight episode, land
hit rainin.r "True bill, - foreman"
TROUPE.